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Definition: John Ross |
John RossNoun1. Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: John RossSynonyms: Ross (n), Sir John Ross (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In 1829, through the munificence of Mr (afterwards Sir) Felix Booth, Ross was able to undertake a second Arctic expedition. This expedition, which lasted four years, achieved important geographical and scientific results. On his return Captain Ross received gold medals from the English and French geographical societies, and various foreign orders, including a knighthood of the Pole Star of Sweden, and in the following year (1834) received a knighthood and a CB in Britain. In 1850 he undertook a third voyage to the Arctic regions, this time in search of Sir John Franklin, and in the following year he attained flag-rank. His publications include:
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Crosswords: John Ross |
| English words defined with "John Ross": James Clark Ross ♦ Ross ♦ Sir James Clark Ross, Sir John Ross. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "John Ross": Man of Ross. (references) |
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 | Sketch of John Ross Key by James McNeill Whistler Sketched in the Coast Survey office in 1854 Key was a nephew of Francis Scott Key He was a draughtsman in the office at the time of the drawing. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Officers on PATHFINDER on first trip Captain John Ross in center sitting. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | John Ross, a Cherokee chief / drawn, printed & coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Expression using "John Ross": Sir John Ross. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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john ross | 47 |
ewing john ross | 10 |
consequence john ross unintended | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-j-n-o-o-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: honors. | |
-3 letters: honor, horns, johns, shoon, shoos, shorn, sorns. | |
-4 letters: hons, horn, john, josh, joss, nosh, oohs, rhos, shoo, sons, soon, sorn. | |
-5 letters: hon, noh, noo, nor, nos, oho, ohs, ons, ooh, ors, rho, son, sos. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-j-n-o-o-r-s-s" | |
+4 letters: johnsongrass. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 6F 68 6E 52 6F 73 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01101111 01101000 01101110 00100000 01010010 01101111 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J o h n   R o s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 006F 0068 006E 0052 006F 0073 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)44817480252818585 |
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